Sunday, September 16, 2001
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Sunday, September 16, 2001 |
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One race contested in Fayetteville
By MONROE ROARK
One of the three Fayetteville City Council seats up for grabs in this fall's election will be contested, while the other two will be filled by incumbents. Lee Hunt, a two-year resident of Fayetteville, will challenge Walt White in Post 3. He qualified about 45 minutes before Wednesday afternoon's deadline, according to City Clerk Judy Stephens. Larry Dell will return to the council in the Post 4 seat, with Al Hovey-King back in Post 5. All City Council seats are voted on citywide, and a candidate can choose to run in whichever post he or she likes. This year's election, scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 6, will be the first in the city with two polling places. After many years of having all voters come to the Depot on East Lanier Avenue, the city has split itself into two precincts, with the northern half of town voting at the LaFayette Educational Center on LaFayette Drive, and the southern half at the Fayette County Library on Stonewall Avenue. The city will contract with the county to handle the actual election, as it has done in the past. All three incumbents have lengthy records of city service, as the council has seen extraordinary stability the past decade after considerable turmoil in the late 1980s. A controversial annexation decision in 1987 led to a firestorm of protest by local residents, a reversal by the state Legislature and the ouster of the entire council within two years. Dell and Hovey-King first appeared on the council in 1988, after their predecessors were recalled. White won his seat in the general election a year later.
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